A “DANGEROUS” rapist recently released from prison must wear a special monitoring device so police know where he is at all times.

York magistrates made an order compelling Andrew John Bailey, 34, to wear a tag that will track his every movement for the next five years whenever he is not at his home address.

For a decade he raped, robbed and sexually or physically attacked young women, targeting them as they walked alone in York and Selby.

Many of his offences were committed while he was living under probation service supervision at its hostel on Boroughbridge Road, York.

When he was given his latest prison sentence, Detective Constable Sam Harding, of North Yorkshire Police, said: “I think we have been very lucky he has not progressed to do something worse.”

Jailing him for nine years at York Crown Court in 2014, the then Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, described him as “deeply disturbed” and a “very dangerous young man”.

He told Bailey: “You are someone who attacks women for no discernible reason, and the public, I am afraid, must be protected from you.

“You have not shown a shred of remorse. You are an arrogant man. You are devious. You will tell all manner of lies to get out of this situation. There is no alternative here but to pass a very long prison sentence.”

As Bailey was released on parole halfway through the sentence this summer North Yorkshire Police applied for a five-year sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) against him.

It includes a condition that he wears a police location monitoring device whenever he is not at his home address. Bailey did not oppose the condition.

Other conditions mean he cannot follow or approach any woman or girl on her own in a public place unless the woman knows about the SHPO, and he cannot have or use a bicycle in public.

The order lasts until June 26, 2023, and the police can ask for it to be renewed.

The nine-year sentence was for three charges of causing actual bodily harm to three different women whom he attacked from behind on cycle and footpaths near York city centre in the summer of 2013.

At the time, he was on parole for a five-year sentence for robbing a teenager and attempting to rob a student, both women, in Spring 2009.

Those offences were committed when he was on parole from a seven-year sentence for twice raping and once indecently assaulting a young woman in 2004.